Julia Barrett has lived many lives, but the one central theme of each is her writing. She’s written prose and poetry since she was a child. Her grandmother was a playwright, an uncle a noted journalist, another uncle wrote college textbooks, and her father acted as an advisor to the Iowa Supreme Court. She’s had articles published in various medical and nursing magazines and poetry published in various literary journals.

Julia has a degree in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa and a second degree in nursing from the University of Utah. She’s been a hospice nurse for ten years. Between the time she graduated from The University of Iowa and became a hospice nurse, Julia has been a bartender, a caterer, a private chef and a restauranteer.

Julia and her lovely husband live on the West Coast with an entire food chain of animals and three children who come and go frequently.